Elize Cawood

Películas

A River Within
Dr. Ezra
A support group travels to the Orange River. A doctor, 2 moms, a daughter and a suicidal woman leave for their "veldskool" trip. Many trials, tribulations and truths are revealed as they go on this epic adventure.
My Mum's Bonkers
Narrator (voice)
About the loss of a mother, with her unexpected exuberance, but who also cries Puccini melodies. A short poetic collage, as fleeting as the blink of an eye, where sounds and images are superimposed to evoke the at once peaceful and tormented memory of a mother.
For the Birds
Ouma
During the South African 70's, a young nurse ruffles feathers as she shows a small town, and its golden boy, what it means to be an independent woman.
She Sounds Like Spring
Tannie Martie
Ben, a mechanic at a Johannesburg car dealership, and Linda, a beautiful, smart redhead, cross paths one night. He immediately recognises her as his boss’s daughter, although she has no idea who he is. They’re immediately attracted to each other, and, in a frantic and uncertain effort to disguise his identity, Ben lies to Linda and claims to be in a band. When their love blossoms unexpectedly and he decides that he wants to live up to his lie, he starts a band with a few fellow employees, and they enroll for a battle-of-the-bands competition.
Luna de miel por sorpresa
Ouma Betsie van Zyl
Amigos de la infancia, Nina y Hugo eligieron diferentes caminos en la vida. Años después, Hugo regresa a su ciudad natal ,sin que él lo supiera, el día antes de la boda de Nina. Los eventos en el día de la boda los vuelven a juntar y se embarcan en una nueva aventura.
Lien se Lankstaanskoene
Roos
This coming-of-age drama tells about a high school girl who resorts to begging to support her family. Lien Jooste’s life falls apart when her father is arrested for fraud and her mother develops a drinking problem. They lose everything and go from being an upstanding, affluent family living in a nice neighbourhood to a broken mess – living in a small flat and struggling to get by. Due to her mother’s drinking, Lien has to take on the role of mother for both her mom and her younger brother Braam.
The Miracle Worker
Maria van Rooyen
Die Wonderwerker tells the story of Eugène Marais, a famous Afrikaans writer, poet and researcher. The story focuses on the few months he spends on the Van Rooyen's farm, where he falls in love with the 19-year-old Jane Brayshaw.
Liefling
Elsa Ferreira
Una joven amante de la aventura despierta el interés de un atractivo galán en este homenaje al amor, la amistad y el destino a ritmo de música.
Tierra de sangre
Anna Hoffman
La trama se centra en las audiencias de la Comisión de la Verdad y la Reconciliación de Sudáfrica, cuyo fin era cerrar las heridas abiertas por las atrocidades del apartheid. Los protagonistas son Alex Mpondo (Ejiofor), miembro del Parlamento del Congreso Nacional Africano, que fue torturado durante su estancia en prisión, y la abogada de derechos humanos Sarah Bercant (Swank).
La larga marcha
Mrs Suiker
Bertold 'Barry' Bohmer (Armin Mueller-Stahl), un entrenador de atletismo fracasado, pero enamorado de su trabajo, encuentra una última oportunidad de alcanzar el éxito cuando conoce a Christine (Nthati Moshesh), una bella atleta tan rápida como rebelde. Juntos deciden enfrentarse a una de las carreras más duras del mundo: el maratón Comrades. Christine es una corredora nata que tiene todas las cualidades para ganar la competición, pero Berry tendrá que emplearse a fondo para convertir a esta inexperta deportista en toda una campeona.
Taxi to Soweto
Jessica du Toit
A Gentle story with a moral of forgive and forget at the kernel of its’ comedy exterior ~ but also one that accurately foretold the changes that were to sweep across South Africa in 1994, as an uptight suburban Johannesburg housewife (Elize Cawood, with an equally uptight husband played by Marius Weyers) accepts a lift from a Sowetan taxi driver (Patrick Shai) and gets taken into another world entirely
What You Sow
Miss van Dyk
A bleak and violent story of delinquency and broken family ties. Christiaan MacDonald escapes from the reformatory where he has been serving a sentence for car theft and asks his sister Dina for help. When his father tells Christiaan he is adopted, and furthermore is banished from the MacDonald family, the young man responds with criminal behavior that rip the family apart.